Highly adsorptive graphene aerogel microspheres with center-diverging microchannel structures

Abstract

Novel graphene oxide aerogel microspheres (GOAMs) with well-defined “center-diverging microchannel” structures are obtained by a novel approach, <italic>i.e.</italic> a combination of electrospraying and freeze-casting. A formation mechanism, <italic>i.e.</italic> radial-directional freezing–thawing, was proposed. The reduced GOAMs exhibit excellent adsorption ability for various organic liquids and oils due to their highly hierarchical hydrophobic structure and a random packing effect.